Will only be able to collect 10 on the 10th, as the
mail ayv comdJ about the 8th. so kindly make the payments fal
on the 10th, and I will attend to it, and forward when due.

Enoloded find my check for #15, for Tarbox, so aenld me
contract to jena him. and he will pay the *10 or more a mo.

Been busy raising the P.O.. and am swanpedd with rnail,
so will be brief.

Jeff come to see me laTy Suidcay, in reply to a letter
from me, and the following Thure1I thini2we had a good meeting
at Belle Glade. Lawrebou was there.

Barring aavere~ lugi.lation, we will have ours pumps in
by Nov, possibly in time to avert a flood.

Plans are for 2 districts in the Square, 2 in Triangle,
one for Chosen, on.e for F Ritta-Bare Beach, all except
8hojen by Nov.

And yuLrJ truly is getting all the credit for bringing
this to a head.

Then you ask me if I k: ow we are on the road to get it.

Just as soon as I can get to it, will send you a few
lifting to start with, but you will not be the only one who
will have them, so supljose two of you sell about the same
time, I suppose the first man up with the money wins-how
aboi.t it.

Soon as I make money to pay for it, will have to get a
red headed stenog. for I cannot begin to k~Loo up with my mail

Jeff wari ed us not to let outside owners know about the
W. C. just yet.

I am 4 receipt of you-." of I.Vril 50th rlItive
to tax matters in Section ,7 and (3, township 44, r'..Ige
36 and note that it is you?"full and fixed determination
to p3s:.l- ll the e ta:.-:s in full, with intoIjst fo-
defer:.', :..i;rment, al:o to p,._ -111 .... .. '7.. .. and
redempti^Lfees. I am sur- ha"'~T''ho situation well
in hand, and I simply took -- liberty of writing you as
a precautionary e.!Lasure. I feel satisfied that th.rse
matters are 'age in yo-, '1, and th-t tou will t-!:e"
care of your i terest and that of the i&' tees in the e
lands.

I would be glad to have -xo. come to T::.ll'La see
at an-- tir;e : Icy your plans before th Trustees and
Drainage Board as I .'.' *r: that they are as anxious as
you are to see the Drainage Lii1!~ develope.

I thank you very much for the maps that you have
epcloed me and I have placed them in my files. Thi. :,i: :
you for? same, I am,

OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS OF
CANAL POINT
TOWNSITE
ON CONNERS HIGHWAY AND F. E. C
RAILROAD AT LAKE OKEECHOBEE

J. A. ROSTAN. VICE PRESIDENT AND MANAGER E. S. MOTTER. TREASURER

PIONEER INVESTMENT COMPANY
REALTORS
Oakley Theatre Building

Lake Worth, Fla.

WARD RANDOLPH. ENGINEER
/: -

OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS
WORTHMORE PARK
ON THE DIXIE HIGHWAY
BETWEEN LAKE WORTH AND
WEST PALM BEACH

May 8th, 1925.

Dr. Tho:i.-Ls E. Will,
Ft. Lauderdale, .lorida.

Dear doctor:

As per your request I took the matter up with
"-r. Bryant in relation to Mr. L'Engle and he has promised
to see him on his first trip to Jjksonville and endeavor
to induce him to continue the operations as fornrier.lly out-
lined, until then I do not see that we can accomplish any
real good.

If it is possible to induce him tp take hold
of the matter we can then proceed under whatseer instruct-
ions he may direct.

Raodived. 10 from Vrs. Aij:ima, and applied toward. mv
commission, and this i3 mv receipt for 6ame.
Will sond the api-lication for Lot. 15 to Tarbox, and
then to you.
On tracts 43-44-42, you gave me prico as $1a00 acre,
on time, so Irt mi knew if you change the price, also voLr 7/
price on thj lots available in town.
Sena receipt to Mrs. Anjima also, as she is fretting. -
I will be in liaTii arou::d the 3.Q4. and will try to
see you.
Spitzer caught a asckar, and sold his place for 4125 an
acre. Watch the buyer howl when he finds he can bay in he
aaine section for 3%0.
Yours truly,

I hoped before long to have the
pleasure of a loni ;a-ticipated chat with you over
the back country: conditions, but I am still very
much over worked here in getting the development
work of this .i-ro:,erty organized and going. I
think however before long I shall have a rreat
deal more time.

In the meantime I am taking the
S libert:- of r.'riti.n to ask you if you happen to
be familiar v.ith Section 17 in Township 45-35.
B4..i- If you do know anythingli about that have you any
further detailed. inforn:,c.tion and can you tell
Sme whet.h-r Tract 35 of that section is Sawgrass,
1.Luck, ITarl or v.,hat? Is there any activity out
here in that 2ov\,nship and section and what are
these ten acre tracts being sold for if they are
s'o.ld at all?

Perhaps it is presumption on my
partto ask you these u iestions, but a friend of
min-e in Chicago asked me to find out about it
because of a widow 'ho has gone blind and who
has sor.e little acreage out there paid up and
wanted to know if it had any value at all.

I If. you can give me any information
about this without .oing to any trouble to look
... it up, which I don't want you to do, I will be
glad to get it.

1018 BROAD STREET ([ Dr. William Buermann "
Chairman
D. P. Fitz Gerald, Jr.
Phone Mitchell 4760 / Treasurer
Herman B. Walker
y4 f Secretary
August Birkenmeler
Theodore S. Fettinger
May 18, 1925. John H. Strigner
Alvin Miller
C. M. Macheca
Dear Doctor :Vill: .. Fred Jung
C. K. Warner
Thomas F. During
For the past two years I have been c. w. slocum
nutting in most of my time recovering from a :J..Cowan
severe illness, and am finally back in such c ix-i~~ dion
condition that I can do business, and am Executive Committee
anxious to make up for lost time. Although the castor
bean fiasco cleaned me up pretty thoroughly, and for a
time made me want to forget Florida, my thoughts 'still
go back there. I have had the sand and muck in my shoes,
and you know howit is.

Since I comeback to Jersey I have been in the
poultry business, both on the production and selling
ends, and for three years managed a big cooperative
eggandX poultry marketing business in New York. My
experience here has convinced me that southern Florida
is the ideal location for a poultry colony, and Ihave
a dream of helping to establish there a Florida Petaluma--
ready-built and equipped small poultry farms and garden
tracts, with bungalow, henhouses and yards, and planted
citrus trees, in s'iape so that a colonist will have a safe
and sure living from the outset. To make the living safe,
this would mean a number of community or cooperative enter
prises such as a cold storage and ice plant, electric ligh
& power plant, hatchery and a marLeting plan and organiza-
tion that could handle and finance cold storage.
Don't know where you are, but if you get this and
are still in Florida, would like to have your reaction to L-'
the idea. By this .time, what do you think of muck for
poultry, and for citrus? Is it true that citrus is
short-lived on the muck? Is there any muck land, conven-
ient to railroad, surfaced roads and canals, that is
suffic$.ntly drained to be sa8. for settlement? What
size traqts of this kind of land do you know of, at what
prAcoesB? itc.
I have a number of m 'neyed men interested in this
idea, and if you can help me fin-T'he righ_1_Lract, we may
be able to find a way of doing business at a profit.

Very truly,

PeS. Read t r.it 3. WL

P.S. Regards to Mrs. .Vill and the family.

Support the Candidates for City Commissioner Who Pledge Themselves to Vote for Tube Extension.

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136MZ RK 46 IL XU

I received yours of the 13th inst., in due time and
have noted contents carefully. The fact is, I was so Biuch
interested in your statementpthat I have read your letter several
different times.

I hope that when the GovErnor makes his inspection of
the Everglades he will be able to visit you at Okeelanta, and go
fully into details of Drainae. matters and Z w should be done by .*
/the AdministrationS. I have been in hopes that you would 2_2
/ tirm to visj~iLt s during the session of Legslature as they are
casting about for something to.r_ for the Everglades and they
have arrived at. nothf so far.I am informed.

I am sure of your ultimate success in your venture, and
Sas you say, your Bond issue for dTking and pimaing is bound to
assure this. I thinyouu have been very fortunate inoparting
ith your lands at yen p ri Gea,, for there never was in the
history of the Evergladesnwh- verglades lands are in such |
great demand. Lands have sold on the North New River Canal during
he last week at $ 7500 per acre, and I am sure that there are
o betterlands in the Everglades than those you hold.

You state that the big question in view of the Drainage
tax act of 1919 is, "Will you be barred after all for making
these sales on account of outstanding Drainage certificates,.
.. he Trust have succeeded in paying an act which was signed t /
by the governor on the 12th inst., and which became a la at that T
S time, which reads in part as follows:
opn~d f iCcrf the owner or BonaEle sucasasor in title to the
owner shall apply to redeem provided however that the bona fide
owner of the land embraced in any tax sale certificate, and who
was the owner at the time of such tax sale, or is the bona fide
successor in title to such owner, shall, at any time, prior to
the date of sale of such lands havehne right to redeem the same
by paying the am untextended inThe face of such a sinale
certificate, toge her with the interest there-o at the rate of
tm which ra I
hitot
cetfiae tg hrtteet hr-olatteraeo

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ifnr~uB nii.jnitu

2 ^ ae month for the first year and 8 %per annum there after
and paying the annual taxes for each subsequent year, and the
interest oereon at the rate of 8 o per annum".
In other words, the former owner may at any time
redeem certificate lands up to the time they may be advertised
and solyd_ the Trustees to other prg a Notice of such
inten'Ton of the Trustees to sell shTla be given by a vertisement
for four weeks in a newspaper published in the County where such
land is situated.

The trouble in your case is that the oerti.cates
outstanding against your lands was not held by the Trustees, if
I remember correctly, but were bought at sale by _i~ji als ls, and
these individuals WPhGaee Eof tZoat apply to the Clerk
of Court and receiv.g C iga, The Trustees in instances of this
kind have no authority or jurisdiction in the matter.

As to your contract with the Trustees for the
purchase of these lands, I have had no intimation that such
contract is about to be foreitedL The only question arises
is that they would forQIose on a mojigage or cacel the
coA.act rather than have an outsider secure deeds On tax sal \
Certificates covering such lan&s.- ."-
While I am not advised of this matter, I feel sure|
that if you_will tatagare of the taxatuation, The Trustees /
will take.are of.@. -
I have heard Mr. LaUng, on several..ocassions, speak
of your efforts and your aisap --ntments, and I am sure that
the other Trustees, were they as familiar of your circumstances
as he is, would take the same view of the matter.

I trust I have made myself clear in this matter,
but I am very pressed for time and have not given'this matter
the consideration I would like to do.

Trusting that I may be of assistance to you, I am,

SeC,; ," '1-t-[i '
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Yours very truly,

Tax Agent.

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iami Fl MAY 23.. 925.
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Di i, m 8%ider-:f-O F 1 -

SO mtim, ago I had som eortsponanao about my int-.
'iist ai;S .h ft Lfam4 sa4 ws told if If dstirid aay farther in. oratfo oto writ
yew.:l am a t Mia t stad would liki eo hiir from you s* to what i binug done
glbg thi a mitte: I iUld i1lso lI.k3 19o rif you 'bink it worth my whili to
leek It eri. VhiWi lthe l Iad loosted iad it i 11t i in e boty?: I would like
to* -Wr i mag ibout itts I satiolpate a trip though th.i glid.a sion o0no0.
ftiag wthi'e 1taeitm "ad I thuati it agght bi well to get in touch with you.
RetY yo wa lsp f it f Any lftoratioe, that you can giv me will be greatly
app:.eeated.
Yoehrs very. tly,
O.B.Enpp.
R.I lox 122.
*1k g *'* ,*,' a l aJ,. s .

I wrote to Tatum Brothers about three weeks ago
relative to some land located between Miami and Fort Lauder-
dale. Yesterday I received a letter from them saying that
probably the land was worth approximately $150 per acre at
the present time, but they were not particularly in touch
with this land and as it was closer to Fort Lauderdale they
suggested that I write to you. Therefore I am writing you
as follows.

Would you kindly give me an approximate price of
what could be obtained for Tracts Twenty-four (24) and Twenty-
five (25), Section Six (6), Township Fifty-one (51) South,
9 t- e Range Forty-one (41) East, Boward County, Florida. These
tracts are supposed to contain ten (10) acres each.

Also, the approximate selling price of Lot Number
Seven (7) in Block Number One hundred fifteen (115), Third
c Addition to Fort Lauderdale.

I, as a brother realtor, licensed in the State of
Florida as well as Illinois, have a client who lives in our
city and who has asked me for this, knowing that I have spent
considerable time on the East Coast of Florida, from Miami
to Vero. I put in four and one-half months winter before last
and two and one-half months last winter in Florida, mostly at
Vero, where we are handling considerable land, but we are also
making connections to handle some in the interior of the state.

I am keeping pretty close touch with Florida and am
mighty glad to know that you boys are all doing so nicely. I
expect to be with you again this winter and hope that I will
have the pleasure of meeting you.

I would like to have this information at as early a
date as possible and if you can give me a definite offer and
these people decide to !jand the deal is made through my
agency, I will split the missionss with you.